Argentina

• Thursday, August 19th 2021 - 08:35 UTC

  Five cases of Delta variant spotted in Buenos Aires with no link to foreign travel

  

  Argentine Health authorities Wednesday announced the detection of three new cases of the Delta variant of coronavirus which could not be linked to any foreign traveller, thus raising the question of whether community circulation could be confirmed.

• Wednesday, August 18th 2021 - 09:41 UTC

  Argentine province of Buenos Aires to start house-by-house vaccination campaign

  

  The Argentine province of Buenos Aires will start Wednesday deploying house-by-house roving vaccinating squads to reach both those who have not had access to immunization as well as people who are reluctant to get jabbed, provincial Health Minister Nicolás Kreplak announced Tuesday.

• Wednesday, August 18th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Paraguayan FM to broker gradual reopening of Argentine borders later this week

  

  Paraguay's Foreign Minister Euclides Acevedo is to travel to Buenos Aires this coming Thursday to discuss with local authorities the reopening of land borders with Argentina which have been closed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2021 - 11:18 UTC

  Argentine relatives of COVID-19 victims stage “March of the Stones”

  

  Argentine relatives of people who have died of COVID-19 Monday staged the so-called “March of the Stones” as a tribute to their loved ones and to voice their criticism for the way the administration of President Alberto Fernández has handled the pandemic.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2021 - 09:29 UTC

  Argentine fishing industry presents its objections to the Protected Marine Area, Blue Hole

  

  The bill creating the Protected Marine Area, Blue Hole, in the South Atlantic and currently under consideration in the Argentine congress has received strong criticism from the Argentine fishing sector, united under the umbrella of Intercamaras.

• Monday, August 16th 2021 - 08:51 UTC

  Argentine province of Salta holds local elections under sanitary protocols

  

  The Argentine province of Salta Sunday held local elections of provincial and municipal lawmakers through an electronic ballot system and amid special covid-19 protection measures.

• Monday, August 16th 2021 - 07:20 UTC

  Falklands Islands (Malvinas): Forensic identification of fallen Argentine soldiers begins

  

  The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has begun a second phase of forensic work to identify Argentine soldiers buried on the Falklands Islands (Malvinas).

• Monday, August 16th 2021 - 06:40 UTC

  Departure of foreign companies from Argentina and also from Brazil on the rise and with no end in sight

  

  Foreign companies keep leaving Argentina and claiming those moves are part of global strategies. Local analysts are reluctant to believe these explanations, but perhaps they would reconsider their stance if they see a similar exodus also taking place in Brazil.

• Saturday, August 14th 2021 - 09:35 UTC

  Presidents of Argentina, Uruguay have dinner in BA to seek a fresh start in bilateral relations after Summit brush

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday welcomed his Uruguayan colleague Luis Lacalle Pou over for dinner at the Olivos Residence in an attempt to restore relations between the two of them following a crash during a Mercosur Summit earlier this year.

• Saturday, August 14th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Argentine President says breach of quarantine was the First Lady's fault

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday laid the blame on the First Lady for the family gathering picture leaked in the past few days and which proved a violation to the quarantine he himself had decreed.